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Alex eyes fluttered open and became wide in horror, how the whole body was covered in sweet and his chest heaving... he closed his eyes and sat up in his bed. It was just a dream... It had looked so real and vivid, and he still felt that horror even though he was aware that none of it was real... He tried to steady his breath and stood up... Alex walked into his closet and changed his shirt to another shirt... He had been having the same nightmare for years now, and it wasn't getting better, only worse and vivid, but the one he had now scared the shit out of him... He walked out of his room and headed down the stairs... The house felt too stuffy for him.... He didn't want to be here any longer... He froze in his tracks when he got to the way that led to another hallway in the house... The hallway when the room in his nightmares were..... He wished there was a way he could demolish the entire house, but he knew his mother and uncle would freak out if he suggested a thing like that... it was a house that had been passed down from generation to generation... His father got this house, while his uncle got another of their estate at the countryside... His uncle preferred it there... Alex sighed deeply and turned away... The house looked empty as he walked towards the garage. Everyone had probably retired for the night... He got to his garage and just grabbed any keys... Alex got into the car that the key unlocked and drove out of his residence... His free hand travelled to his chest, and he tried to steady his breathing... he felt unsettled and wanted to see her for himself that she was fine... He couldn't stop thinking and worrying about her, so he ignored the rising pain in his chest and stepped on his accelerator, and by the time he got to her house, he was a mess... he loosened the two buttons of his chest and was finding it hard to breathe as he stopped his car engine and came out of his car.... He sighted the men, he asked to watch Juliet and one of them immediately started to approach him, but stopped in his tracks when he recognised Alex... He stopped in front of her front door and tried to take a deep breath, but it was hard... He pressed her door bell ans closed his eyes... the pain in the chest was increasing and he turned to leave so he wouldn't worry her when she saw him like this, but he couldn't leave, he could barely walk because of the pain... How could he drive in this state... He should have just called her instead of driving over to her house... Juliet was awake and in her living room when she heard her doorbell. She was working on her laptop and checked the time to see that it was almost midnight....Who could it be... She immediately grew tense when she thought about two people who could show up at her house this late... It was either Alex or... her aunt, whom she hadn't heard from for days now... she doubted it was Alex, because of what had transpired between the both of them earlier that day... She took a deep breath as she walked to her front door... "Who is it?" She said, but didn't hear a response... She sighed deeply and ran her hand through her hair... "Who is it?" Juliet said again, and she decided to be bold and take a peep outside... She locked the door with a chain lock so she could see who it was and also prevent the person from entering into her house... Juliet turned her door knob and looked oustide, and her eyes immediately grew wide when she saw who it was... it was Alex. Why was he here by this time... She opened her door... but the state she met him in was completely unexpected. He held his chest, and his face was pale and contoured in pain... "Alex!" Juliet panicked and immediately helped him into her house... "What is wrong!" she asked him, her eyes filled with worry, but he just shook his head.... she was able to get him to the couch in her living room, and she made him sit... He didn't look okay and his hand was on his chest and he was heaving for breath...he couldn't breathe... she had to call an ambulance. Juliet was about to rush to her room to get her phone, but he held her hand and shook his head. "I need... a bag...." He managed to say through his ragged breath..."A bag," Juliet said confused. He nodded, and she thought about it just for a second before she rushed to her kitchen... Juliet eyes started to scan the kitchen for where she kept a bag... She panicked and at to take a deep breath and acted quickly she opened her cabinet, and the drawers ans started to search through it till she found a brown paper bag... She immediately took out the back and rushed to her living room... Juliet came back with a brown paper back and handed it to Him... Alex took the bag from her and immediately started to breathe into it, and all Juliet could do was watch him struggle to catch his breath... What was going on! She was worried and confused now! why did his life seem so complicated! He had panic attacks... what made him this way... Wasn't it better if she called an ambulance... He needed a doctor, not her or a paper bag... "We should go to a hospital," She said to him, and he shook his head... She slowly eased herself beside him on the couch, and her hand travelled to his back... Juliet hesitated for a few seconds before she finally started to pat his back softly, trying to help him in any way she could..